"wolfc" wrote : What is considered to be valid state when there is no ejb-jar.xml? | My assumption is that the annotation scanning deployer should have build up an EjbJarMetaData, so in real life we don't encounter this problem? | The jboss.xml parsing deployer just creates an empty EjbJarMetaData if there is not one to use as the JBossMetaData overriden value, so that is what the test should do as well. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4095506#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...